Lotus Notes Migration tools
Steve highlighted this article that appeared on eweek. I'd been following the news internally and saw the blog post that the Exchange team and the collaboration team have been blogging about.
As Don succinctly puts it:
"Many Lotus Notes customers wanted to migrate to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint but lacked migration tools for all the legacy Notes applications. Microsoft has introduced three new migration tools to ease the process.
Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Notes enables users to move their messaging and directory services as well as their Notes infrastructure, and move data from template-based applications to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Role-based Templates for SharePoint My Sites enable users to create customized portals for employees to find information and tools. There are templates for financial analyst, staffing specialist, administrative assistant, customer services representative, IT engineer and marketing manager.
Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 Application Templates includes sample applications known as the Fantastic 40. I believe in the old days at Lotus they called these sample app's the "Nifty Fifty".
The new migration tools, currently in beta, will be available for download from Microsoft within the next 30 days. See this site for complete details, migration resources, and news."
(The Sharepoint buzz blog goes into a bit more detail too...)
I think that these tools will really ease the migration process you know. A lot of customers that I've worked with in the past have been adamant that all of their applications were in use daily, but in actual fact, when we ran analysis tools, we discovered that there were only a few applications that were actually used on a regular basis (diary etc).
If you'd like more information about how to get your company on the migration path, or would like some some local help on how to get things started, please get in touch with me, and I'll try to get you in touch with a local resource to help move things forward with you....
